Buddha Statue Postures and Mudras
Grade 8 · ART · Buddhist Art
Lesson presentation introducing Buddha statue postures, physical characteristics, seats, and symbolic mudras in Sri Lankan Buddhist art.
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"Buddha Statue Postures and Mudras" is a lesson presentation for Grade 8 Art, filed under Buddhist Art, prepared by Nilmini Jayasekara.
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Slides work best as revision after the lesson rather than instead of it: read the matching pages in the reading book first, then use these to check what you remember. For Grade 8 this is usually a single topic per file.
Buddha statues are read through two things together: posture (asana) and hand gesture (mudra). The three main postures are seated (often in meditation), standing, and reclining (representing the Buddha's passing into parinirvana).
The mudras worth knowing by name are dhyana (meditation, hands resting palm-up in the lap), abhaya (fearlessness/blessing, palm raised outward), bhumisparsha (earth-touching, calling the earth to witness enlightenment), and dharmachakra (teaching, hands at chest height). An exam question naming a mudra is asking you to identify the moment in the Buddha's life it represents - learn the pairs together, not the terms alone.
